As a Java application Lead, you will be a pivotal technical leader driving the modernization and enhancement of critical lending applications. This role demands significant hands-on technical expertise in modern full-stack development, combined with strong leadership, a passion for engineering excellence, and the ability to mentor developers through complex modernization initiatives within a dynamic financial services environment.
You will be instrumental in bridging the gap between existing and target systems, ensuring continued stability while architecting and implementing solutions for our lending platforms.
Responsibilities:
- Lead Application Development: Design, develop, and implement high-quality, scalable Java and Spring Boot solutions.
- Ensure Code Quality: Perform comprehensive unit, integration, and performance testing. Conduct thorough peer code reviews.
- Architect & Design: Contribute to architecture, design and development of application components with minimal assistance. Be able to straddle between traditional Java/J2EE/RDBMS stacks to micro services based Next gen stack.
- Data Management: Utilize RDBMS (SQL, PL/SQL) expertise and NoSQL database familiarity.
- Champion the use of AI assisted development tools and authentication frameworks to improve developer productivity, code quality, testing & documentation across engineering team.
- Technical Mentorship: Serve as an SME to stakeholders and mentor junior developers. Evaluate and adopt new tools and approaches to improve delivery.
- Collaboration & Execution: Work effectively with global development teams to deliver business solutions.
- Risk Management: Appropriately assess and manage risk in technical decisions, ensuring compliance with firm policies and regulations.
Qualifications:
- 10+ years of relevant experience in enterprise application development.
- Proven experience in a lead developer or technical lead role.
- Strong hands-on expertise with Java, J2EE, Spring, Spring Boot.
- Good understanding of the lending domain.
- Solid understanding of RDBMS (SQL, PL/SQL) and familiarity with NoSQL databases; caching (Redis) experience a plus.
- Extensive hands-on experience with Java, J2EE (including WebSphere, JSP/Servlets, EJB), Spring, Spring Boot, JPA/Hibernate, HTML, CSS, and JavaScript and leading application modernization to modern Java/Spring microservices.
- Demonstrated leadership, project management, and communication skills.
- Hands-on experience with advanced AI software engineering tools (e.g., Devin.AI, Copilot).
- Knowledge of building microservices, REST APIs (Swagger/OpenAPI), and SOAP integrations.
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Job Family Group:
Technology
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Job Family:
Applications Development
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Time Type:
Full time
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Most Relevant Skills
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